Tamaris Borrelly

Tamaris Borrelly lives and works in Paris, where she was born in 1987. During her studies at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, she trained in the studios of Giuseppe Penone, Ann Veronica Janssens and Djamel Tatah. She studied experimental film and animation at the School of Visual Art in New York. Her artistic practice evolves from sculpture to installation and drawing. She worked and lived in India several times between 2016 and 2019. During a residency in Mumbai, she began making drawings that questioned her perception of nature. At the French animation school Supinfocom in Pune, she teaches animated painting. In 2020, she is contacted by dancer Clémentine Vanlerberghe to create a visual score in found footage and rotoscopy for her upcoming show Gratia Lacrimarum, at the CDCN in Roubaix. In 2021, she will take part in a number of cross-disciplinary educational projects in middle and high schools in the Hauts-de-France region, where she is in residency with the DRAC. In 2021 and 2022, her work is presented in Paris as a solo show at the Galerie du Haut-Pavé, at the Pavillon in Pantin; and in Shanghai on several occasions: A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Dumonteil; Sans Tambour, ni Trompettes by the French Consulate of China at the WestBund Museum in Shanghai; at the Shanghai Botanical Garden. His solo exhibitions Inner life shaping world and Vibrancy took place, respectively, in spring 2023 and 2025, in Shanghai. In 2023, his work entered the collections of the CNAP and L’ADRA artothèques in the form of a color etching produced in collaboration with the René Tazé intaglio workshop. Her work is presented in collective exhibitions campaigning for the preservation of biodiversity and ecosystems: Origines, regard d’artistes sur les forêts primaires at the Carreau du temple in Paris by Coal; Forêt, Vert Fragile curated by Paul Ardenne in Marseille and co-produced by the Greenline Foundation and the Forest Art Project. In 2025, she joined Le cercle de l’Art, which combines collaborative tradition and educational innovation to support the artistic and economic emancipation of women artists.